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I like it. Makes sense, we have seen similar things happen. Obviously we don't know for sure but I think its a good theory.

Hi chaos I'm a big fan of your posts. That does make it seem a bit more logical but the fact that one of the ten spren is honor still seems to be awkward especially in a system governed by symmetry.

I believe the problem here is that some of you have not read the first pages of this post. Mad scientists and chaos theorize that the type of spren you bond with determines which two of Surgebindings powers you get. meaning there are ten types of spren that make up surgebinding each one giving you a specific set of two powers. zas678 was right when he first posted that quote in response to my post this does seem to put a huge gaping hole in my theory about honor spren being a collective term. It does now seem likely that honor spren are specific to windrunners. This still seems strange to me because then truth spren could act without any honor at all. that seems counter productive considering it is honors magic system. any thoughts on how this could make logical sense?

I realize that Honor Spren and the Nahel Bond are two different things that is why I used the term Nahel Bond spren, meaning spren involved in a Nahel bond. Also I didnt say Honor Spren is the name for all spren that make bonds just the bonds that make people into surgebinders. I do see your point and I had considered it before I posted my theory but i still cant except the idea that one of the spren that makes up honor's system of magic is honor itself. Windrunners are no different than the rest of the surgebinders so how can they be honor and the rest just aspects of honor?

Hi guys. I have spent the last hour or so reading through the entire three pages of this post and I must say it is quite amazing. Espcially mad scientist he is extremely good at coming up with theories. My theory to add to all of this is as follows. "Honor Spren" is the term used to refer to all ten of the spren that grant Surgebinder powers. It itself is not a specific type of spren but a collective term. Basically we dont know the name of the type of spren that Syl is. Yes she is an Honor Spren, an Honor Spren being a Nahel Bond Spren that grants surgebinding powers. Shallen bonded with a Truth Spren giving her Soulcasting and one other power, truth Spren are one of the ten types, which makes sense since truth can be an aspect of honor. Continuing with my theory I suggest that there are Nahel Bond spren for Voidbinding. Basically the Nahel Bond is a link between a spren and its user(or however you want to word it)and can manifest as Honor Spren in Surgebinding or as Odium spren Voidbinding. If the secongd part of my theory is wrong and Nahel Bond spren are what I am theorizing Honor Spren are then I am still sticking to the first part where Honor Spren is a collective term. This fits in with the book because nobody uses the term Nahel Bond spren in the text, so we wouldnt have two terms for the same thing.

I reread the article were he first mentions it. It doesn't say that it is a cosmere book but it doesn't say that it isn't either, it is kind of inconclusive. The sample chapter did however make it seem like it could very well be part of the cosmere and i know what i'm talking about when it comes to the cosmere.

When did he say that? When he first mentioned the book on his blog it said it was set in the Cosmere.

I was scouring Brandon's official website when I stumbled upon something pretty major that I didn't even know existed. How many people here are aware that Brandon had a sample chapter for Scribbler (the Rithmatist) posted on his site. I read it and it was quite amazing and I'm sure it will shed some light on shards that we don't know about yet.On the main page of the site click on welcome then scroll down almost all the way to the bottom to the section called bonus material. On the right side next to the paragraph are three links the last of which is the Scribbler sample chapter. The description states that Brandon posted it there as a thanks to all the people who read the entire welcome page. It is just a taste of what is to come but I already have a theory of what the shard might be, I think it might be Order.

Im so glad that people are actually debating my crackpot theory! and i did consider the idea that one of the two temporal metals (i cant remember which one slows down time) could add to the theoretically small window of time to use up the Duralumin units. I didn't add to the original post because i felt i had already rambled on considerably. Another thought, if you could also use zincminds if you tapped one the increse in mental sharpness might help you be able to use the Duralumin units faster.

I was thinking about how Brandon would use Nicrosil in the following mistborn books and several thoughts came to me. First off if someone was burning a metal, lets say Steel and was using Duralumin to leap very high. Then another mistborn used Nicrosil on that person. Would the effects of the Duralumin and Nicrosil stack up, effectively having twice the power of a normal Duralumin Steel push. Now here is were my theory gets really crazy. What if you had the same situation set up as before but the mistborn using Nicrosil was also using Duralumin. Could this possibly triple the effect of the original Duralumin Steel push? Now here is where the Nicrobattery theory part comes into play. Two mistborns, Mistborn A Nicrobursts Mistborn B giving their currently burning metal one "unit" of Duralumin like power. Mistborn B is burning Nicrosil. Mistborn B then takes their one Duralumin unit Nicroburst and touches Mistborn A with it theoretically giving Mistborn A's currently burning metal two Duralumin units. Mistborn A is burning Nicrosil that now has the two units and now repeats the process giving Mistborn B three Duralumin units. You could theoretically continue this process until you reach the desired level of Duralumin units and then burn the metal you want the super powered effect of. The possibilities are extreme. A three Duralumin unit pewter punch could effectively create a massive crater. A steel push could lunge you into space. You could Soothe or Riot entire countries. A Seeker could sense every allomancer in the entire world. Cadmium could stop time in a bubble around you. you get the idea, and if the theory actually worked the possibilities would be truly limitless. Lord Ruler eat your heart out.